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Your third picture is the location of my original shot with the pink Cedric Clayson on c.1980, in Shrewsbury Road W2. I came past today and took a snap. Compare and contrast!
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Thanks very much for taking the time to reply, I thoroughly enjoyed that tale, though sorry to hear the Cedric was stolen.
And having looked at the pic, yes that matches your original pic for sure, the old grey matter still works fine fella, and the legs are clearly still turning over too, revisiting the same spot 39 years later, good work :)
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Thanks @HarmanMogul, an original photo from around that time great!. I've never heard of Cedric Clayson so thanks for that too. It definitely has the right pattern on the wall. Here is the original again for this page:
I've been over to have a look, St Stephen's Gardens itself just has house fronts and steps, so it must have been at the ends. The eastern end is Chepstow Road, one does not match at all and here is the other one. It is on the end where I normally expect the junction boxes to be.
The two windows don't look recent so I don't think it was that end. Top detective work by @Oliver Schick on identifying the '25' junction box on Chepstow Rd, that really is a good match, but having just 'steetviewed' all of Chepstow Road I can't see anywhere along there that looks like the original photo.
Moving over to the house ends at the western end of St Stephen's Gardens and that is Shrewsbury Rd as Oliver says. Here's one:
That does look promising, it could have been there, but there is no junction box, though as Oliver says this could have been moved. The pavement does look very similar but in @HarmanMogul's original pic and my recent one above, I can't see a manhole/utilities access cover that's in front of the junction box on the original photo. Do you remember approx what year your photo was taken @HarmanMogul? The pavement looks pretty new in your photo, maybe between the original pic and yours, they moved the junction box that maybe meant it didn't need an access cover, so they got rid of that too.
The other side is the one that Oliver linked to, seen again here:
The plaster pattern matches again, but it does look like those windows are new and that a basement has been converted, so it could have been that if that looked different in the past. What makes me think twice about this side is that the road slopes down more on this side and is on an obvious slope unlike the original.
@chez_jay I'd love to be able to say for sure but I'm afraid I can't confirm if either of those is the right answer. Just to add another option, this is the one I had identified. It has a junction box numbered 25, the plaster pattern matches, its on a level road, at the end of a road and its on Faraday Rd, just off Ladbroke Grove, so the right area. Seen here:
So we have 2 junction boxes in the same area numbered 25, that is confusing! And there's some other junction boxes next to it, seen in this other shot.
Note the far junction box appears to have the same manhole/utility cover in front of it as the original photo, but there are no lines on the wall to the left, like the original. I note the junction boxes are different in style too, maybe they changed them all over the years and they have been in slightly different locations along the wall over the years, or perhaps the covers in front of the junction box on the right used to look like the other ones?
Thanks very much for your help everyone, what do you think? I can't say I'm convinced by either, but top work getting that far, I'll report back if I find anything else.